original colony

collocation in English

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original
adjective
uk
/əˈrɪdʒ.ən.əl/us
/əˈrɪdʒ.ən.əl/
existing since the beginning, or being the earliest form ...
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colony
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒl.ə.ni/us
/ˈkɑː.lə.ni/
a country or area controlled politically by a more powerful country that is often ...
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(Definition oforiginalandcolonyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Theoriginalcolonydesignator remains part of the strain name when a strain is maintained at a new location.
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It may be difficult to identify whether a sett has been recolonised or whether there are badgers remaining from theoriginalcolonywhich were not captured during the trapping operation.
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A whole colony was known to renest after a snowstorm forced them to abandon theiroriginalcolony.
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The move was done by moving eight frame houses from theoriginalcolony.
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Like theoriginalcolony, this settlement was quickly disbanded.
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If an ant is separated from itsoriginalcolony, it will eventually lose the colony scent.
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Swarming creates an interruption in the brood cycle of theoriginalcolony.
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The incorrect blazon is usually used anyway, to preserve the reference to the thirteen original colonies, and this form is occasionally imitated allusively.
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The stars on the field of blue represent the 13 original colonies.
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After the revolution, the new federal government owned all the public land except that within the 13 original colonies and a few non-original states.
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The rest were forcibly relocated, so that few of their descendants now live at the location of the original colonies.
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The olive branch has thirteen olives and thirteen olive leaves to represent the thirteen original colonies.
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Thirteen stars (symbolizing the 13 original colonies) were added to the perimeter of the obverse in 1838.
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From the time these imperial powers formed their original colonies, relationships and boundaries became exceedingly more complex, affecting not only themselves, but even the indigenous peoples and the land itself.
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